How Many Calories are Burned by Cleaning?

Welcome to the cleaning section of DietandFitnessToday where the highest number of calories burned is 336 Calories, for farming, vigorous effort (e.g., baling hay, cleaning barn). This is for an average male weighting 190 pounds (86 Kg). Below is a list of 22 activities based on the general description of cleaning, ranging from the highest calorie burn from 'farming, vigorous effort (e.g., baling hay, cleaning barn)' which burns 336 calories in 30 minutes through to the activity 'farming, light effort (e.g., cleaning animal sheds, preparing animal feed)' which has the lowest calorie burn of 86 calories in 30 minutes, for a typical adult weighing 190 pounds (86 Kg).

For farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort, which is a typical intensity activity under the general description of cleaning activities, the average calories burned by a person weighing 190 pounds (86 Kg) in 30 minutes is 151 Calories. In one hour farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort will burn 302 Calories.

The calorie rank is the rank of the cleaning activity compared with all other 800 activities in our database to give an indication of the percentage of activities which have a higher or lower calorie burn. A rank of 1 means it is the highest ranking activity in terms or calorie burn and a rank of 100 means it is the activity with the lowest carlorie burn compared with all other activities.

Effect of Intensity on the Calorie Calculator

Although the above is a typical example for cleaning, the calculator we use to determine the calories burnt depends on the intensity, duration and your body weight. At the bottom of the article we have a variety of different intensities which can be personalized based on your weight and the duration of the activities, using our free calculator.

Calorie Score and Calorie Rank for Cleaning

Calories Burned in 30 Minutes for a Typical cleaning Activity

As we have previously mentioned Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort is a moderate and typical level of intensity for cleaning and can be used as a general representative approximate measure for calories burnt by cleaning. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) burns 151 Calories, while an average woman weighing 163 pounds (74 kg), in 30 minutes burns 129 Calories.

Calories Per Minute

The calories burned per minute for Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort is 5 Calories per minute, for a typical man and for a typical female is 4 Calories per minute.

Calories Per Hour

The calories lost in one hour is 302 calories for a typical man, and 259 calories in one hour for a typical woman.

How to Burn 100 Calories

To burn 100 calories for a typical male would require 20 minutes of the activity farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort and to burn 100 calories with the same cleaning activity for a typical female would take 25 minutes.

Comparison with Inactivity

30 mins of inactivity for example just sitting and watching television burns 43 calories for a typical man and 37 calories for a typical woman. Which means Farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort burns 3.8 times more calories than the equivalent time of inactivity for an average man and 3.5 times more calories for an average female.

Weight Loss from Cleaning

To answer the question how many pounds will I lose from the activity cleaning? Taking this example of farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort in 30 minutes, the weight loss for a typical man is a minimum of 0.02 pounds, and a typical woman would lose 0.02 pounds.

Based on 4 sessions per week of farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort for a duration of 30 minutes per session, the approximate time taken to lose one pound is 13 weeks for a man and 13 weeks for a woman, assuming no other changes in lifestyle or eating habits.

The same 4 sessions per week of farming, milking by hand, cleaning pails, moderate effort for a duration of 30 minutes per session, would lose 1kg in 5 weeks for a man and 6 weeks for a woman.

Cleaning Activity with the Highest Calorie Burn

The highest number of calories burned for an average person is achieved by farming, vigorous effort (e.g., baling hay, cleaning barn). For this activity in 30 minutes an average man burns 336 Calories, while an average woman in 30 minutes burns 288 Calories.

Cleaning Activity with the Lowest Calorie Burn

The cleaning activity with the lowest calories burnt is farming, light effort (e.g., cleaning animal sheds, preparing animal feed), which for an average man in 30 minutes burns 86 Calories, and for an average woman burns 74 Calories.

Average Calories Burned by Cleaning

Based on the the list of 22 cleaning activities, shown below, the average calories burned for an average male, weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) is 164 Calories for 30 minutes of cleaning. The average burnt for an average female, weighing 163 pounds (74 kg) is 141 Calories for 30 minutes of cleaning.

Cleaning for 30 minutes - Calories Burned Calculator

Calories Burned in 30 minutes of cleaning for Average Male (M) and Female (F) (click to personalise).

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